freshtake

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Kindle users can now buy books from their iOS devices(9to5mac.com)
2 points by freshtake 1y ago|4 comments
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by freshtake 2y ago
Until the code breaks and no one can figure out how to fix (or prompt to fix) it :)
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by freshtake 2y ago
This. For folks who regularly write simd/vmx/etc, this is a fairly straightforward PR, and one that uses very common patterns to achieve better parallelism. It's still cool nonetheless, but not a particularly great test of De
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by freshtake 2y ago
This exists to an extent today. If you apply your profession to an area that the government deems a societal good (e.g. you work at a public university), it can be discharged after 10 years. This was status quo for decades.
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by freshtake 2y ago
Yep, and I think most reasonable people would agree with this.
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by freshtake 2y ago
this. you'll also need escrow, a notary, a co-signer, and 50 pages of signatures to secure the loan
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by freshtake 2y ago
In-state University of California, Riverside tuition is roughly $13k/year. This isn't mind-bogglingly expensive IMO. Less than 25% of student debt is from public colleges, with the majority due to expensive private schools. Most o
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by freshtake 2y ago
FWIW, most of my friends in undergrad would openly flaunt the way they were spending their student loan money (weed, video games, new spoiler for their car, etc.). This was not the exception, as far as I could tell. So the age thing goes bo
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by freshtake 2y ago
5) Do nothing about the problem until the debt becomes too large, then attempt to blanket cancel the debt without expecting any fallout. All the while doing nothing to fix the underlying issues.
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by freshtake 2y ago
Online education ftw? If you can drop 90% of administrators and real estate by moving online, student loans become a thing of the past. College becomes a halfway house commune for young people to who want to leave their parents nest. So th
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by freshtake 2y ago
This is the problem with a ton of policy thinking. The idea that we can solve a problem of this magnitude with disruption, and somehow prevent market forces from reacting, is incredibly short sighted. It's incredibly expensive to run a
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by freshtake 2y ago
Yep, exactly. Current situation is clearly bad, but most of the solutions seem to focus around the idea that dismissing trillions of dollars in debt through bankruptcy is a great idea (it isn't)
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by freshtake 2y ago
Agreed with the overall consensus that we should let this market be guided by true market forces, but I also think people often assume the wrong outcome of this. Universities give students a ton of control over their education. Where do you